An unusually cute rat leaped to victory ahead of a window-licking fox and a hungry wood mouse to win The Mammal Society photograph Beats By Dre Lady Gaga of the year. The judges were won over by the close-up picture of the brown rat taking a long-distance jump between two rusty cans, set up by Roy Rimmer from Wigan, who managed to snap him mid-air. Wildlife photographer and competition judge Kate MacRae said: 'This image quite literally leaped out at me when I first saw it.' The winner: This energetic rat leaped to first place in the Mammal Society Photographic Competition A close second: The adorable licking fox also warmed the hearts of the jury Third place: A wood mouse up close, tucking into a blackberry cheap diddy beats Foxes have had a bad press recently but Julie Milne won second place with her adorable image of a young fox cub licking a window from her garden in Kent.The wood mouse eating his blackberry while balancing on a thorny branch came in third. Photographer Gary Cox impressed the judges by showing this common mammal in Dre Beats Tour White an intimate way.More...Snuggles from puggles: The tiny baby echidnas that can curl up in the palm of your handCare to dance with a bear? Don't mind if I do… Cute pictures capture 'polar bear waltz'The photographs were taken all around Britain, from Cornwall to Scotland, to show new cheap dre beats ways at looking at familiar wildlife.The more playful mammals did particularly well out of Sale Beats By Dre the 370 submissions. AlessandroOggioni from Monza, Italy, froze the movement when two dolphins were jumping out of the water near Inverness, and the surfing seal off the coast of Cornwall was also a favourite with the two judges.Judgeswere wildlife expert Kate MacRae and photographer Steve Magennis. The Mammal Society works to identify threats to British mammals, and halt the decline. Scrapping by the estuary: Fighting stoats in the undergrowth in north Beats By Dre Studio Cheapest Price Wales Roe deer at dawn: A deer is pictured in the hazy morning light with London in the distance Surfing seal: A streamlined seal charges through the sea in Cornwall Deer in Richmond Park: A lone deer faces the camera in a London park A weasel among the sparrows: The frightened birds make a swift exit from a weasel in Rainham Marshes Leaping dolphins: Two elegant dolphins swim energetically past the coast at the Firth of Forth With its prey: A fox carries mice off for its next feed
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